Book Overview
Life began for Paula Rothenberg in a privileged home in New York City, but it took her to the battlefields of the culture wars on behalf of the underprivileged. Now this veteran of that cultural clash... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0700610049
ISBN13:9780700610044
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Length:230 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Perceptive Insights into Significant Problems
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A very well-done combination of personal recollection and political insights. The questions of gender, race and class are often presented in an off-putting manner that only appeals to the already committed. Because of the genuiness and the clarity of this book, it can serve as an introduction to these areas for those who still have something to learn about them.
PRIVILEGE: HOW DOES IT HELP? HOW DOES IT HURT?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
"Invisible Privilege" is a multilayered book that I will enjoy reading more than once. It has the liveliness, humor, and candor of a good autobiography. But instead of merely telling one person's story, the author wears the analytical and critical lenses through which she views our society, to look at her own life -- without apology or mea culpa. She gives up the dearly held privilege of many of us "white liberals" to pretend that, in spite of the impact of race, class, and gender on American life, we somehow wriggled through unscathed, perhaps because of our own "natural" goodness. The author provides funny, poignant, eye-opening examples of how no one can rest on the laurels of being a good person with good intentions in this whirlwind society of ours. She is deepening the discussions of discrimination and exclusion, prejudice and hate, as well as of being human, and I look forward to her next book.
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